{"id":544326,"date":"2026-03-16T15:55:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/544326\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:55:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:55:21","slug":"surprise-early-leader-as-four-go-perfect-zero-tackles-nrl-mvp-round-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/544326\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise early leader as four go perfect: Zero Tackle’s NRL MVP, Round 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Zealand Warriors<\/a> halfback Tanah Boyd<\/a> has stamped his authority as the best player in the game over the opening fortnight of the season, claiming the early lead in Zero Tackle’s NRL MVP.<\/p>\n

After claiming maximum votes in Round 1, Boyd backed it up in Round 2 by playing a starring role in the Warriors’ home win over the Canberra Raiders<\/a>, with Andrew Webster’s side getting off to a flying start despite not having Luke Metcalf<\/a> available.<\/p>\n

Round 2 saw an even mix of unanimous man of the match performances and split decisions.<\/p>\n

Jonah Pezet<\/a> for the Eels, Jarome Luai<\/a> for the Tigers, Sua Fa’alogo<\/a> for the Storm and Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow<\/a> for the Dolphins<\/a> were the easy decisions for our four-person judging panel.<\/p>\n

In the other games, Boyd, Leka Halasima<\/a>, Naufahu Whyte<\/a>, James Tedesco<\/a>, David Fifita<\/a>, Dylan Edwards<\/a>, Blaize Talagi<\/a>, Nathan Cleary<\/a>, Bradman Best<\/a> and Sandon Smith<\/a> were all rated as best on ground by at least one judge.<\/p>\n

The big scores for Dylan Edwards<\/a> and Harry Grant<\/a> mean they round out the top three at the end of a fortnight, while Sua Fa’alogo’s perfect 20 has him knocking on the door.<\/p>\n

As a reminder of how this works, our panel, comprising Zero Tackle founder Matt Clements, journalist Leo Twemlow, and writer Dan Nichols, alongside myself as editor, will cast votes on a 5-4-3-2-1 basis from each game of the premiership season.<\/p>\n

Here are the Round 2 votes.<\/p>\n

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Top ten<\/p>\n

Click here to view the full leaderboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand Warriors halfback Tanah Boyd has stamped his authority as the best player in the game over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-544326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}